From the News, Nation, Dawn, Pakistan Observer, Daily Times, Frontier Post, Nawa-i-Waqt (Urdu), Jang (Urdu) and daily Express (Urdu) newspapers                                                                            

2 January 2010

International News

Political

• NEW YORK (AFP) World rings in new decade with parties, security fears (The News, p- 11)

Economic

• Tokyo (AP) Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, whose popularity has tumbled in recent weeks, vowed Friday to dedicate 2010 to fighting deflation and re-building the world’s second biggest economy (The News, p- 18)

• Tokyo (AFP) Japan’s population fell by an estimated 75,000 people in 2009, the biggest fall since World War II amid soaring elderly welfare costs, according to data released Friday (The News, p- 11)